Re: GNOME and geometry specifications

[Jim Stewart <jim fweep com>]

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Drazen Kacar wrote:
> > 
> > File it against GTK. It doesn't use Xt, so it doesn't handle
> > -geometry & friends and it doesn't handle X resources. Bad bad gtk.
> > 
> 
> Don't, there's no way Gtk could handle this since some applications have
> to do it in a special way. If you want --geometry, file it against the
> apps.
> 
> I'll ignore the Xt troll. :-) 

is it really a good idea to ignore X resources too, though?  i guess gnome has
its own way of doing that as well, but is there any good reason not to build
GTK with Xt?

jim

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